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Polyvagal Trauma Therapy Certificate Preview Event


Polyvagal Trauma Therapy Certificate Preview Event

FREE LIVE & ONLINE: MARCH 29TH, 2026 FROM 4:30 - 6PM ET

This event can be only be attended live.


 

REGISTER HERE FOR THE FREE LIVE PREVIEW EVENT

FREE, LIVE & ONLINE:
March 29th, 2026 from 4:30 - 6pm ET

 

 

Stop the trauma feedback loop — at its source.

Trauma shapes how the nervous system detects safety and danger.

When that detection system becomes biased toward threat, survival responses interrupt connection — reinforcing the original wound, altering perception, and maintaining dysregulation.

This Polyvagal Trauma Therapy Certificate trains you to read, understand, and reorganize those autonomic patterns so clients can safely move from protection into access to the full range of human experience — connection, curiosity, intimacy, and coherent engagement — where healing and transformation become possible.

A structured clinical model for safely sequencing trauma recovery through somatic therapy — through the nervous system.

 

 

WHY POLYVAGAL TRAUMA THERAPY?

Even in skilled trauma work, many clients:

  • Understand their trauma and still feel physiologically stuck

  • Regress into shutdown or dissociation when approaching the wound

  • Activate protective responses that derail relational repair

  • Show progress in session that does not hold under stress

  • Lose access to presence right when healing begins to unfold

This is not resistance. It is neuroception — the body continuing to detect danger and prioritize survival.

Applied Polyvagal Trauma Therapy strengthens the clinician's ability to recognize protection early—before overwhelm takes hold—and sequence interventions aligned with autonomic capacity. It supports stabilizing connection during activation and trauma processing, while also guiding defensive completion when survival states are interrupted. Throughout this work, clinicians learn to track nervous system change as the foundation of transformation.

The shift is from managing symptoms to preventing dysregulation through a physiology-guided treatment process. This is how trauma healing becomes consistent, relational, and sustainable.

 

 
Thriving is our birth right. Healing individual and collective trauma is one of deepest reminders of this birthright.
— DR. SCOTT LYONS
 

 
 

 

WHAT YOU’LL LEARN

This program supports practitioners in developing competencies to:

✔ Recognize and map autonomic states and blended survival responses

✔ Work with developmental trauma, preverbal memory, and procedural patterns

✔ Pace intervention to match actual capacity

✔ Support shifts from defensive survival into adaptive engagement

✔ Maintain connection during activation and trauma processing

✔ Interrupt the trauma feedback loop as it’s happening

✔ Integrate somatic interventions without triggering overwhelm

You don’t just learn the method — you practice the method with expert guidance.

You will leave with a reliable pathway for guiding change — rather than hoping regulation sticks.

 

 

The Six-Phase Polyvagal Trauma Therapy Model

A clinically structured progression aligned with autonomic readiness

 
 

 
The six-phase model changed how I think about pacing. I’m no longer guessing when to resource versus when to process.
— MARCUS J., STUDENT
 

 
 

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